Simon Urbanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > thanks, but this is not what I want (the symbols in the environment > are invisible outside) and it has nothing to do with the question I > posed: as I was saying in the previous e-mail the point is to have > exported variables in a namespace, but their value is known only > after the namespace was attached (to be precise I'm talking about > rJava here and many variables are valid only after the VM was > initialized - using them before is an error).
We have a similar use case and here is one workaround: Define an environment in your name space and use it to store the information that you get after VM-init. There are a number of ways to expose this: * Export the env and use vmEnv$foo * Provide accessor functions, getVmFooInfo() * Or you can take the accessor function approach a bit further to make things look like a regular variable by using active bindings. I can give more details if you want. We are using this in the BSgenome package in BioC. HTH, + seth ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
